Archive for February, 2007

Review: Ghost Rider

Mark’s Rat­ing: 3.75 out of 5 Johnny Blaze a motor­cy­cle stunt rider with a car­ni­val sells his soul to Mephistophe­les in a bar­gain to cure his father’s can­cer. The next day Blaze Sr. dies in motor­cy­cle acci­dent. Johnny blames Mephistophe­les for his father’s death, but is still bound by his con­tract. Years later, Mephistophe­les calls […]

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Bloody Weather

We got hit with a bliz­zard warn­ing for the week­end and last night things were not look­ing pretty out the win­dows. Then about 6:30 PM, the power went out. For­tu­nately, our house has a fire­place so we were able to stay warm until the power came back on around 1:00 AM this morn­ing. We trooped […]

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Interesting Couple of Days

Sun­day night both Ariesna and I were feel­ing a lit­tle run down. Mon­day we both woke up sick. Not sure what her symp­toms were, but I had a sinus pres­sure so bad I was dizzy. I slept through almost all of Mon­day, but around din­ner time got up enough energy to head down­stairs. And that […]

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Review: Pan’s Labrynth

Mark’s Rat­ing: 4 out of 5 A dark, bru­tal and depress­ing movie that touches the heart. Pan’s Labyrinth was imported form Span­ish (orig­i­nal title: El laber­into del fauno) and is a mod­ern fairy tale. Don’t let that fairy tale descrip­tion fool you, this is no film for young chil­dren. The set­ting is some­where in the countryside […]

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Convert from AMM to Now Reading

As part of my upgrad­ing to the latest/greatest ver­sion of Word­Press, I switched over to using the Now Read­ing plu­gin from AMM. I switched because devel­op­ment on AMM seems to have come to a com­plete halt and it was act­ing some­what flaky prior to the upgrade. One of the big prob­lems with switch­ing over was […]

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